poor fella my country...

Desert Star is a great blog hanging off a great website called Desert Dreams. Go there. You'll love it. To give you a taste, here's a bit of Bob Innes's political commentary which I think is well worth reading:

Does a country get the leader it deserves, or does a leader guide the country towards their view of what they believe a country should be? It's an important question in light of the results of election 2004, wherein John Winston Howard, one of the most reviled and vilified leaders the country has ever seen, has won an historic four elections in a row, by popular mandate. Full Story >>>